John Gower, recent readings : papers presented at the meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-1988
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John Gower, recent readings : papers presented at the meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-1988
(Studies in medieval culture, 26)
Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1989
- : pbk
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In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand Chaucer's good will toward the moral friend and fellow author into whose tutelary watchfulness he commended Troilus and Criseyde-and easier to assess the positive value Chaucer's adjective must have borne. The thirteen essays included here all represent a fresh approach, an effort by North American and European scholars to offer a representative sample of the many diverse directions taken by Gower studies today. The essays demonstrate the life still present in Gower's work and serve as both an excellent introduction and update on the state of Gower scholarship.
Table of Contents
Contents Illustrations Introduction Nature and the Good in Gower's Confessio Amantis by Hugh White Gather Ye Rosebuds: Gower's Comic Reply to Jean de Meun by James Dean Genial Gower: Laughter in the Confessio Amantis by Linda Barney Burke Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower by Winthrop Wetherbee Gower, Chaucer, and the Classics: Back to the Textual Evidence by Gotz Schmitz Did Gower Write Cento? by R. F. Yeager Gower's Source Manuscript of Nicholas Trevet's Les Cronicles by Robert M. Correale John Gower and the Book of Daniel by Russell A. Peck Gower's Metaethics by Michael P. Kuczynski God's Faithfulness and the Lover's Despair: The Theological Framework of the Iphis and Araxarethan Story by David G. Allen Aspects of Gentilesse in John Gower's Confessio Amantis, Books III-V by Kurt Olsson The Illustrations in New College MS. 266 for Gower's Conversion Tales by Peter C. Braeger Miniatures as Evidence of Reading in a Manuscript of the Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS. M. 126) by Patricia Eberle Contributors
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